The Osceola times., 1887-07-02
Items ABOUT WOMEN

Mrs. RICHARD BoND. of Boston. Ia,
left twenty-three thousand dollars to
Dartmouth College.
WOMEN are the State librarians Of
Indiana, Iowa, KentScky, Louisiana
Michigan, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The Marquis of Northam pton ha,
placed his Clerkenwell property under
the supervision of lady visitors, to be
appointed by Miss Octavia Hill.
DR. MARS +. BATES, regarded as
one of the best surgeons IN Chicago.
was the first woman to graduate from
medical college in that city. She has
a large practice.
Mrs. HELEN CAMPBELL, since her
..Prisoners of Poverty" called attention
to the suflerings of poor sewing women,
has received hundreds of applications
from people who want seamstresses.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE has pub
lished an appeal to the woman Of
England to help in providing central
home and adequate organization for
the Women's Protection and Provident
League.
The town councils of twenty Scotch
towns have this year petitioned Parlia-
ment to grant suffrage to women.
Among them are Edinburgh. Dun
fermline, Dumfries, Dunbar, Linlth.
gov and Stirling.
Miss WINIFRED EDGERsoN, who re-
ceived the degree of Ph. ID. from Co.
lumbia College last year. is the teacher
of mathematics in the New York
school of which Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland has become the associate
principal.
LADY HARBERToN lately gave lect.
ure on dress reform, to ladies only, in
the Crystal Palace. The room was
crowded, and a lady who attended as
an agent of Worth, the great Paris
dressmaker, expressed herself much
pleased with the costume invented by
Lady Harberton.
Miss LEILA j. ROBINSON, OF the SUI.
folk County (Mass.) bar, thinks the
West offers better opportunities than
the East to woman lawyer. and that
the further West one goes, the more
favorable the condition becomes. One
gon and Washington Territory sh'
, thinks the best field of all.
Mrs. MARTHA j. LAMB, editor o
A the Magazine of american History, il
I a member of thirteen learned societies
a life-member of the American His
torical Society and Fellow Of tn,
o Clarendon Historical Society of Edin
: burgh. She is said to be very modes
: and unassuming little woman.
/ MRs. ERNEST HART has done mucl
!, to helf the suffering Donegal peasantry
C by system of cottage industries
4 Glove-kuit,ing, crocheting and EN-
r broidcry give many poor Irish womer
B. chance to earn few shillings TO hell
: the family fund. Mrs. Hart is alst
V irving to revive the laee-making indus
: try in Ireland.
Y THE EMPRESS OF CHINA issued de
| cree, lusl DtloIt utI ItiiitHith'' az
2 vocating the development of the min
e ing resources of the empire. She ad
5 ministered a severe rebuke to the pro
:, vincial authorities who have throw
r difficulties in the way of working tn,
o mines, and warned them that sucl
d conduct would not be tolerated.
= CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG says tina
: an American girl need not stud.
o abroad to become professiona
j singer, but can learn in this country
: she will work hard, give up most o
!, the pleasures young people prize
study dramatic action as well as sing
n ing, and give her whole time to prep
2, aration. Her general health must b
u watched over as carefully AS her voice
> She must eat nourishing food, TAX
plenty of exercise, and get nine hou!s
: sleep.